The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-10-14
The Poor People.
N. 0. Daily States, Oct. 8, 1887.

livery Iulb oE run ilahA9t3 WY |
sore-headed bolter; every disappointed
and soured aspiTant for dictatorship
in politics sets up the cry that "the
machine" must be smashed, and that
"tho people are gagged and their will
suppressed by riugstera. Our es,
teemed contemporary the Picqyane,
is not an exception to this rule. For
years past 1t has been aspiring to
Democratic leadership; it has invari-
ably been sat down upon by the repre-
sentatiyes of party in convention as
sembled, and, after each and every |
upset of its pretentions, it has bolted |
the nomination and sought to imbue
the rank and file with sense OF their
duty to follow its example,
The Niehollsites or Reformers, in
this campaign, have proclaimed the
Pic their organ and their ideal OF a
Democratic newspaper, and hence en-
dorsed It's utteTauces, Under these
circumstances tho States has felt
bound to review the record of this
ideal Democratic paper on boiling,
and submit to General Nichols and
the Reform leaders generally the
question, whether or not, in endors-
ing that journal as their organ and
their ideal Democratic paper, they en-
dorse that record3
This morning our able neighbor
makes very sorry defence of itself,
and, of course, maintains that its
boltjngs and boiling teachings were
always prompted by tender atfee-
tions for the poor helpless people
whose voice in the Democratic con
vontlons has been suppressed by the
Machine run by the ringsters, Thus,
in 1884 it assumes that the voice of
the people was suppressed in the State
convention that nominated McEnery
over Nichols by decided majority
that little later, in the same year,
the voice Of the poor hel pless people
would have been again suppressed
had Mr.. Hunt gone before the regu-
lar District Convention for nomIna-
ton though how our apostle of bolt
| ing reconCiles this proposition with
the fact that, on direct appeal to
"the peoplo" they showed Mr., Hunt
under so deep that he is not likely to
be heard of again as a Democratic
candidate for Congress, we arc not
toId1; then we do not believe there has
been a Democratic municipal conven-
tion, in many years, in which the
organ of the Nlcholsites has not held
that the voice of "the people, was
sauelched, and which it has not
bolted to support an independent
ticket; and finally, the Reform organ
finds, that, even now, right in the
midst of the present red hot struggle
of the NicholIsites to defend the
rights of "the people," who are all
! huddled under the Reform petticoats,
, the ringsters, with their machine, sue
! ceeded in trampling, openly and
, boldly, upon the people and nominat
ing candidate they do not wish,
/ Alas, the poor peoplel Was the
= like of il ever heardl Suffering and
: groaning under the iron heel of the
cabal of ringsters, they are Poweress
toproteGt themselves. Though they arr
the people" with the Pic at theiI
Q back, or in their lead, they canuot
y get Justice; they cannot elect q repre-
k sentative convention; they cannO
8 secure the nomination of candidat'
}, of their own choice. Alas, the poo
S devils! The little band of Fingsters
i in this free country, with its equa
d laws, its universal franchise, its unre
b stricted personal freedom Of though
IS ana action, are keeping down 9TH
0 peopIep What unqualified denagc
Ie gical nonsense is thisl The troubl
r with our esteemed contemporary i
o that il has mlstakeR itself and its oWI
l. little ring for "lhe people" and henc
IL finds 'ithe people" defeated in ever
le Democratic convention, with nothin
to do but support the nominees 2
the Democratic party, Or roar out tha
'sthe people" have been gagged an
p bolt, and 80 it bolts.
ii Now LET the States not be misnr
s, derstood. We do not pretend TO hol
70 that the machine, ringism, bosses an
= corruption do not enter as factors ]
z the selection Of our conventions an
N ID our elections. One mnst be
III simpletoa OF . hgpoeFite who malE
"a tains any such thing. But We q
~ maintain that there are as man
Of schemeFs, bosses and corruptionisi
y on the one side as on the other; thi
m in the long run their evil forces abor
56 counter.balance each ether and thi
is in every canvass, in which the rei
people Of this or any other enligh
i, ened and free country take an actiy
u interest, after discounting all u
y tricks and schemes Of intereste
: workers, the real voice Of the Peep
r. predominates and controls the pollti'
n 81 The country.
For instance let rs take the vel
u canvass in which we are engaged noN
= liz our experience We have ney
& known more thoroughly organize
- a more powerful Or, 10 political m
,,a | cblnatlonsy WpIe dnaaNioAs -
~ grasping machine than that Of Viii
Y tie bBig Four Of this cisy are I
engineers, which raniHes every wa
and precinct Of New Orleans, whi
u supporting Gov. Nichols loE Coy
sed nor and on which ho and bis iriel
lr solely and exclusively depend,
siS carry tins city, if they carry + AZ
w, Against the conventions which
leir very machine bas ip the past
,ery whole Or IN part, manlpnieted'
al- Picagaae has several times b9ltea,
nta, ihe ground that the wilt of PRS
itisi ple bad been spppresse4 qy 4
riaR9 But wheg tilq flees
kicked Against tl1ls a1slepipf
~ Gh5re { WNd Nef4Q
j as henee Hst y see9Eq ~R